Crime Statistics for Mirehouse, Copeland, Cumbria, 2025

Is Mirehouse rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 41 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Mirehouse, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	24
Other Theft	4
Public Order	4
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Drugs	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	41

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Mirehouse. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Mirehouse

We've taken the ten nearest places to Mirehouse and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Mirehouse has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Harras (1.86 miles)	143
Bleach Green (2.48 miles)	125
Hensingham (0.62 miles)	82
Kells (1.39 miles)	51
Mirehouse	41
Keekle (1.39 miles)	37
Rottington (1.75 miles)	6
Pallaflat (1.96 miles)	3
Moor Row (1.39 miles)	2
Bigrigg (1.75 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Mirehouse?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Mirehouse and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Harras	61
Bleach Green	51
Hensingham	44
Kells	24
Mirehouse	24
Keekle	20
Pallaflat	2
Rottington	1
Moor Row	1
Bigrigg	1

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Mirehouse?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Mirehouse to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Mirehouse compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Mirehouse and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Mirehouse have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Moresby.

#	Ward	Score
1	Whitehaven South	48
2	Cleator Moor	42
3	Whitehaven Central	36
4	Kells	35
5	Sneckyeat	33
6	Corkickle	24
7	Egremont	23
8	St Bees	21
9	Moor Row & Bigrigg	18
10	Hillcrest	13
11	Moresby	6

Which road in Mirehouse has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Mirehouse with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.